The Travancore Devaswom Board, which presides over the Sabarimala temple in Kerala, took a sharp U-turn in the Supreme Court on Wednesday by supporting its verdict which had allowed women of all age groups to enter the shrine.

Days after courting controversy over a list of 51 women who had entered the Sabarimala temple, the Kerala government said only two women of menstrual age had visited the shrine after a Supreme Court’s judgement removed the bar on their entry.

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